Gary Stevens, who rode Oxbow to victory in the Preakness Stakes, talks with WSJ's Jim Chairusmi about horse racing, the Belmont Stakes and his acting career. Photo: Associated Press.

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I ... on to treat a lawsuit Julia was mostly jockey Gary Stevens Dairy Road ox bow to win the Preakness Stakes and riding out in the Belmont ... ITC theres Plano ... well it's the it's like it's going to be a large scale up to fifteen horses and ... so I think it's going to play more like the Kentucky Derby did in the Preakness Preakness was smaller funds forces them ... my worst established there early so ... you know we've got a short run into the first turn at Belmont Park is mana happen I think look to for ... all the jockeys to establish as ... a good position early on so it's gonna be sort of a free for all ... going into that first turn the good thing about ox knows he's got good taste there's this other piece in the race but ... um no on going in there with a ... lot of confidence in what ox bow can achieve if he comes back like it did the Preakness and ... you know it's it's race to lose some free for alls was a rain on Sunday a lot of courses in the field looks like advantage of war ... I don't often be a big advantage or Brendon it's a completely different a stack them ... I think he will be favored dad he's you know I have one law sisters undefeated here so my that sits on course and ... I he gets to walk out of his own stall that he's been camped out in the last two years is obviously it's come back trained well going into the race he is the Derby champion ... I'm looking for a good rematch with the war of an ox bow ... now so a lot of casual sports fans are thinking no Triple Crown on the line ... what what's a selling point I washed it down once ... it is the Belmont Stakes and I think it ... you know it to the way they talks go ... on and in the tree this was a huge performance in the discipline in a box so ... I think that people are are looking for at least myself I would love for the real or just show up we've obviously got to ... fourteen other worse is that we gotta worry about the sides or back ... I'm ... hoping that the real Lord shows that scene was in knots above shows up and I rode them think that stand I think the BN for ... the race the race for the ages to force receives rivalries but they also you know they were rooting for Japan this year ... and it ... is is it gonna happen ... well obviously not this year but to ... I don't I I think that the that will happen whether it's going to happen in my lifetime or not ... I don't know but to ... I think it's best to animal will come along that ... can accomplish says that she gotta remember it's it's like this year's Belmont this new horses coming and they ... didn't compete ... in the sea the Preakness or the Belmont are the Kentucky Derby the one so ... it's like having a title contender come in and had a buy in the first two stages of a playoff and then come and fashion ... fashion dangerous so we're dealing with new words every time it was up to me ... at sea can compete as second too late he didn't compete in person and I guarantee lead up to become one of them right ... now so you can retire in January ... if Locke wasn't canceled ... would you be standing here talk to me about writing in a Belmont not highly doubt it I mean I was full time actor ... at that time and ... we believe that you know it's going to ... have a role for ... a long time and the yen of sudden it stopped and ... I'm ... it definitely gave me incentive to come back and do what I'm doing now and so far it's been a blessing to me that when the two thousand thirteen Preakness Stakes after ... being away for seven seven years of being back for five months ... I would need to train to the ninety stop the acting bug ... I've never is ... gonna go away the same as writing never went away ... and even when ... I retired and started acting and and and ... be an analyst a full-time and it